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Structures, algorithms and stone/timber prototypes
- 12 January 2016
- By Alberto Pugnale
- In Alberto Pugnale, Form-finding, News, Parametric Design, Publications/Conferences, Research, Researchers, Academics
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I participated to a 1-day seminar, which was held at Politecnico di Bari on 11 January 2016. It was kindly organised by a friend and colleague, Giuseppe Fallacara, who is currently working in that university as Associate Professor. During the seminar, Sofia Colabella, Sergio Pone and I delivered three separate presentations about structures,…
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Aalborg University, Fall semester 2010: I was coordinating the Master’s subject “Formfindings” when I introduced programming using the “parametric wall”. Through a single consistent system of elements and interrelations, designers could rapidly explore a multitude of spatial configurations in what Lars Spuybroek defined ‘the architecture of variation’.
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John Frazer – An evolutionary architecture
- 10 January 2008
- By Alberto Pugnale
- In Architects, Engineers, Artists, Books, Evolutionary techniques, Research, Researchers, Academics, Teaching and learning
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[…] the computer is a device with the power and speed to meet the requirements of the limits of our imaginations. We need this power to compress evolutionary time and space so that results can be achieved more realistically in our life-times. The emphasis, however, rests in the techniques, in…
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Which NURBS do you belong to?
- 2 April 2007
- By Alberto Pugnale
- In Books, Mathematics, Geometry and Topology, Parametric Design, Researchers, Academics
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Le superfici NURBS possono essere generate in modi differenti, e proprio a partire dal metodo col quale le si genera si può classificarle in cinque tipologie. Il testo di Massimiliano Ciammaichella (vedi Bibliografia) le spiega ed espone esaustivamente una per una. E’ interessante notare come la modalità di generazione di…